... that has raised hackles, its the equating of women's experience online with his experience, and then since he can take it, so should they.

He would have been on a much safer tack if he had simply not considered the issue, than in his strategy of engaging in idle speculation about what was going on and then dismissing it on the basis of his idle speculation.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.